Exploitation films

Maciste in Hell

A muscleman drops into a full gothic hell. Peplum crossbred with a haunted-castle picture, and it looks it.

Goliath and the Vampires

Maciste renamed again, fighting a shapeshifter. Cheerfully incoherent.

The Giant of Marathon

Reeves again, with underwater battle scenes Bava shot uncredited.

Hercules in the Haunted World

Bava shoots Hades in gel colours. Looks like nothing else in the cycle.

Hercules Unchained

The sequel that turned one Hercules hit into an entire industry.

Hercules

Steve Reeves, a Mr Universe title, and the start of the Italian genre machine.

The Colossus of Rhodes

Leone's actual debut, three years before the westerns.